Chuck Freimund

I think it is becoming evident that Bo Ryan will give way to Greg Gard as the next coach of the Badgers basketball program. The program is in a awkward situation. The current coaching staff has been hitting the summer tournaments on the recruiting trail. How can they possibly sell anyone on the program with the current coaching situation up in the air? They are recruiting for 2016 and beyond and Bo will be done by then.
There is no way the school would name and “outside coach”, lets say Richard Pitino from Minnesota, as its coach, yet let Pitino coach at Minnesota for another year. Everything points to Gard being named coach. I'm not so sure that's the direction AD Barry Alvarez wants to go but Bo has given him very little choice because of recruiting

The giant sized elephant in the room every week at Badger coach Gary Anderson's post game press conferences is his team's big hole at the quarterback spot. Its a mystery how a consistant Top 25 football program can be going thru this weekly drama that is here to stay for the rest of the season. Neither Joel Stave or Tanner McEvoy are starters at high division one level. Both may be able to get the job done at Utah State,but this is Wisconsin. I'll be curious this Saturday to see how both are used against Illinois.

Watching bad quarterback play at the collegiate level is a painful experience, Thru five games, its about as bad as I have seen the QB position since before the Alvarez era. Is basketball starting soon?

Not to be lost in last night's comeback win was Wily Peralta's performance.. Looked early like Big Wily was going to run into a high pitch count when he had all sorts of troubles in the first inning. Wily then settled down and kept the Brewers in the game until the offense scratched out just enough to get the win. Its to bad that its all on the pitching, if the Brewers find their way into the playoffs. The offense shouldn't be this spotty with the guys they have in that lineup. It has been the entire season and there is no reason to think the offense will ever bail out the pitching. Ryan Braun is killing the team with his inability to ever come up with the clutch hit. Going to need another big effort from Mike Fiers tonight because runs will be hard to scratch out against Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright,who appears to have bounced out of what was a late summer skid..

Its too bad that it has come down to this. The Milwaukee Brewers are pressed into 'must win' games on this nine game road trip. First of all ,no team should be saddled with a nine game road trip to finish out most of the season. Yes, the MLB schedule maker screwed the Brewers here. I know they just got done with a 11 game homestand but that shouldnt have happened either in September, How about some balance?.
I would have guessed two months ago that the Brewers would be looking to clinch the NL Central title on this road trip. Now they are looking to just stay above water and possibly get a wild card spot. Honestly, it sucks that the Brewers are in this position after a mostly awesome summer. But it seems like Brewer history is. whenever they have a shot at the playoffs, they are in 'must win' situations in September,playing from behind like this and ultimately come up short.
They need to be within a game and half of Pittsburgh going into the series with the Pirates this weekend.Anymore larger than that might be the end.

The Brewers are playing handball with a curb these days.. Its been a horrible stretch and now we are relegated to actually glancing at the Wild Card Standings and monitoring how the Braves are doing. I've conceded the NL Central race to St Louis.. Horrible that after one week the Brewers went from first place and legit contenders in the NL to being written off.

Maybe this team really wasn't that good to begin with. I still think, if they can get into the postseason, that they can beat any one of those teams in the National League. Even St Louis..

Who's going to put the team's on their back? The pitching staff has been bad during this recent stretch excpet for Mike Fiers but the staff has carried the load all season and the offense needs to pick up the pitching right now.. It has to turn around tonight and the Brewers desperately need to get on a roll of more than one game before this turns out to be one of the biggest disapppointments in team history.

I wrote a week ago that I was worried about the upcoming West Coast road trip for the Milwaukee Brewers. I have seen it before, where teams will ruin a season late in the year with a road trip out West. Six straight losses later, the Brewers find themselves looking up to St Louis in the NL Central and the "Firing Roenicke" squad is out. To make this quick, firing Roenicke isnt even on the Brewers radar and to blame him for the recent slide is absurd. The firing of Ned Yost in Sept 2008, unfortunately, set a horrible precedent.Relieving Roenicke at this point would be a knee jerk reaction and it isn't happening.

There have been contending teams that have gone out West in the season's final weeks and have come back buried.. Its where pennant hopes sometimes die. I remember one of my first year's covering the Brewers, in 1983, they left in late August, a half game out of first place,lost nearly every game on the trip. They were an afterthought when they returned to Milwaukee..

The Brewers start a nine game road trip tonight in San Diego. They cannot afford any 2 and 7 trip by the time they return home on September 4. They seem like a resilient team and have been able to fend off any challengers. They have survived injuries and a mid season seven game losing skid to find themselves still in control of the division. In some ways, they have been surprising that they haven't relinguished the lead yet.. Im hoping it stays that way thru these next nine games..

If the Brewers are going to go on and win the NL Central,they might be able to look back at the quality starts they received from Jimmy Nelson and Mike Fiers. Neither was counted on this year but the Marco Estrada switch to Nelson and Fiers for the injured Matt Garza have proven to be huge for the team. Both Fiers and Nelson were putting up big numbers at Triple A and thus far,they have been a boost to an already solid starting rotation.

We will see Fiers again tonight against Toronto at Miller Park. Im not hanging my hat on the Fiers train just yet and don't expect him to pitch at the extreme level that he is at,but his two outings thus far,could be two wins the Brewers could look back on, if they win the division. Just hoping Fiers is able to keep holding the fort down if and when Garza returns.

My co-host Mike Wickett and I will probably never agree on Ryan Braun's season. Its been a subject we are both at odds over with no end in sight. I expect so much more from Braun because of his talent level. Braun is having a subpar season by his standards. No longer is he driving the ball with authority and most times looks ordinary at the plate. His plate discipline seems to have slipped too. Again ,he maybe bothered by multiple injuries,then if thats the case, he's doing his best to be a productive player. But if he is healthy, hopefully, for the Brewers sake, this isnt the Ryan Braun we will see for years to come. That simply will be wasted big time money by the Brewers ,on his contract extention, which pays him like a bonafide All Star.

As I went to get my mail yesterday afternoon, my phone buzzed with a news alert Usually they are sports related. I was sad to reach into my pocket only to see the breaking news that Robin Williams had died at the age of 63. Only to find further the cause of death. I was standing in the street stunned by the news.
Obviously,I don't know Robin at all but a little piece of me sunk at the news. I hated hearing the news. Im not "movie guy" but Good Morning Vietnam is one that I could never get tired of watching.. He was much more than that movie but it was a movie that all radio people can relate to. Anyone in their 40s or older,can relate to the comedians of our time, Richard Pryor,Steve Martin, and Robin, the stand up greats of the late 70's..He had more to give to the entertainment buisness its just sad he couldnt be helped.